{"id":91981,"date":"2026-01-07T04:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/91981\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T04:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:38:11","slug":"cellphone-store-employee-speaks-out-after-violent-robbery-caught-on-camera-in-soundview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/91981\/","title":{"rendered":"Cellphone store employee speaks out after violent robbery caught on camera in Soundview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are asking for the public\u2019s help identifying a group of men wanted in connection with a robbery pattern targeting cellphone stores in The Bronx.<\/p>\n<p>One of the robberies happened at a Total Wireless store on Westchester Avenue on Dec. 3. <\/p>\n<p>Three unidentified men approached 44-year-old employee, Arshad, forced him to the ground and threatened him as they demanded money and phones.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video shows the moments the suspects went through the victim\u2019s pockets, dragged him into a bathroom and punched him multiple times in the face. They are also caught on camera forcing open the register and taking cash while continuing to search the store for phones. <\/p>\n<p>Arshad suffered minor injuries to his face and hands and was treated at the scene by EMS.<\/p>\n<p>Police believe the suspects are responsible for another robbery in West Farms that happened on Nov. 13. They say two of the suspects forcibly stole cellphones from a woman working at another cellphone store. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are asking for the public\u2019s help identifying a group of men wanted in connection with a robbery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[22181,128,9,24,63,1690,17595,2466,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-91981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-attempted-robbery","9":"tag-bronx","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-robbery","14":"tag-robbery-search","15":"tag-soundview","16":"tag-the-bronx","17":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","18":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}